Coin facts

Here are ten of our favourite coin facts that we have compiled just for fun!

Space Invaders ate our coinsThe Space Invaders game was so popular when it was released in Japan in 1978 that it caused a national coin shortage!
Japan suffered a nationwide shortage of 100-yen coins and had to increase coin production to keep up with demand.
Space invaders ate my change!

Space Invaders arrived in the United States in 1980 and by mid-1981, $1 billion of quarters had been gobbled up by the game.

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